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1 XI | which is in heaven. He that 1oveth father or mother more than
2 XXX | stood in a mighty plain, all a-bloom with fresh and fragrant
3 XXII | fells around, and journeyed a-foot over untrodden and pathless
4 XXVIII | he much occupied himself a-thinking how he might see him; and
5 XXII | mountain a company of hermits a-walking. Straightway at their governor'
6 XL | down nigh the sepulchre, a-weeping. And as he sat, he fell
7 VII | by the hand of Moses and Aaron, holy men, honoured with
8 XII | it exalteth, it quickly abaseth to the utmost wretchedness,
9 XVI | the most loathsome and abhorrent.' Then spake the chief counsellor
10 XVII | they should amend. For he abhorreth nothing, nor turneth away
11 XXXI | and again he was like to abjure his whole way of life; and
12 XI | arise from a heart that abominateth sin and weepeth, as saith
13 XXXV | of Paul; that where sin abounded, there did grace much more
14 XV | as a shadow; which, when absent, need not be despaired of
15 IX | had, of their own choice, absented themselves from this joyous
16 IX | for men's works, and that absolutely nothing, good or bad, shall
17 XI | compassionate, pure in heart, abstaining from all defilement of flesh
18 XXX | more to afflict his body by abstinence from meat and drink, and
19 XXVII | Greeks, O king, introduced an absurd, foolish and ungodly fashion
20 XXIV | bring in a thousand more absurdities to catch fools? But now,
21 XIX | which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten thee
22 XV | light of Christ on all men abundantly, imparting to us of his
23 XXXI | unto him, ~"Give ear, thou abyss of error, blacker than the
24 XVII | look eye to eye upon the abysses of such mysteries, or speak
25 XV | Prince, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and redeem thy
26 XXXIX | saying, and worthy of all acceptation,' as proclaimed by Paul
27 XXVIII | again unto him, and lovingly accepteth the penitent. ~Now on the
28 XII | task, and one not easy of accomplishment, for a man that is tied
29 XVI | being a deserter of his own accord to the darkness of ungodliness." ~
30 XIV | unexpectedly into woe. In accordance therefore with the unbroken
31 VI | blamed him for his manner of accosting the men by the wayside.
32 XVI | our own from whence there accrueth no gain to those who possess
33 V | discern the future, and accurately ascertain it? This is beyond
34 VI | thy conscience doth not accuse thee of having committed
35 IV | they would be found just accusers. ~But the king, not forgetful
36 INT | less painfully, and doth accustom us not to despair on account
37 XII | rigours, or glory in his achievements. He that excelled in virtue
38 XIX | but united in substance; acknowledging one God unbegotten, the
39 V | and hath commanded us to acquaint thee with none of the woes
40 II | brothers, my friends and mine acquaintances. But from my former friends
41 XVI | substance.' So the young man acquired the inheritance, and surpassed
42 XX | proofs it is evident that the acquirement of virtue is within our
43 | across
44 XXXVIII| herein did this noble and active runner of the heavenly race
45 XIX | imaginations we come also to actual deeds, and every work, advancing
46 XXXVIII| love of her Master, this adamantine and indomitable soul bore
47 XXIII | with poverty, while thou addest ever to thy store by seizing
48 XIII | any hope of deliverance, I address myself to thee, praying
49 XXVI | unturned, as the saying is, and adhered to his old purpose, determining
50 XXII | us from life in the close adherence to virtue. For we dread,
51 IV | thine advice? Say on; I adjure thee in the name of truth;
52 XXII | courage and nobility won admiration even from that tyrant. But,
53 XXXII | all creation, are rightly admired as preachers of truth by
54 X | well with thee.' The man, admiring the lucidity and sense of
55 XXXIII | as were under his hand he admonished and exhorted, and did everything
56 XXIV | from thy father's love and admonition" But thou shalt not alway
57 XXXV | scarce brought by his son's admonitions to make so bold. Thus the
58 XVI | here with your folk and adopt your manner of life.' Thereupon
59 XXVI | upon earth do worship and adore them, how waggest thou tongue
60 XII | upon the ground. To-day it adorneth his neck with brilliant
61 XXVII | law by murders, sorceries, adulteries, thefts and unnatural crimes.
62 X | to the fowler, `Man, what advantageth it thee to slay me? for
63 XXVI | the king, and durst not adventure themselves into the light
64 IV | thereto, and what is thine advice? Say on; I adjure thee in
65 IV | from the king, he would advise him, who had made this better
66 XXX | indeed she had, for her adviser, one to whom she lent a
67 XXVIII | thou in turn take thine advisers unto thee, and duly practise
68 XXV | whereof they confidently affirm. ~"But thou, dearest son,
69 XXII | and when they constantly affirmed that they had never seen
70 VI | stone; and if it be as thou affirmest, I immediately bear it to
71 XVIII | quite outworn. For by thus afflicting our bodies with the constraints
72 XVIII | removed, to graze further afield, she followed them. But
73 VIII | Judge, and no defence by after-works, no time for amendment,
74 XII | terrible wide jaws, all agape to swallow him. Again looking
75 XXXIX | spiritual things, saying, "Long ago, dearly beloved Ioasaph,
76 XII | savage a lord, that are all agog for present joys and are
77 XXXIII | Therefore also the king agreed that this matter should
78 XXVIII | thinking fit to keep his agreement. ~The king's son, therefore,
79 XXX | as man hath never seen. Ah! who could describe the
80 XXXIV | strengthened by the power that aided them, finally triumphed
81 XXX | and he came and asked what ailed him. And Ioasaph told him
82 XV | preferred. All deliberation aimeth at action and dependeth
83 XIV | these things, and others akin to them, I held judgement
84 XIV | treat them as something alien and quickly passing away,
85 XXXVIII| Christ, King of all and God all-good, that it was thy pleasure
86 XXXVIII| thee, good Paraclete, the all-holy Spirit, because thou didst
87 XXXIX | now, thou lover of good, all-merciful Master, receive me into
88 XXXVI | we be seen by the divine all-seeing eye. Therefore pay we first
89 XVII | marvellous steersmanship and all-wise providence? Behold the heavens,
90 XXVII | lasciviousness that they allege against their gods? Is it
91 XXVII | folly than the Chaldeans, alleging the existence of many gods,
92 XXVII | gods: if the stories be allegorical, then are the gods myths
93 VIII | righteous: but to sinners is allotted the station of misery on
94 XI | not away free will, nor alloweth the forgiving of sins after
95 XXIII | the sweets of life and the allures of appetite and pleasure,
96 | almost
97 XXXVIII| the marvellous change and alteration that had changed and altered
98 XXVII | he willeth, changeth and altereth the same. What then must
99 XVIII | Wherefore am I lost in amaze at thine eloquent wisdom. ~"
100 XVIII | But Ioasaph, being sore amazed at the hardship of his austere
101 XXIII | in present goods, nor are ambitious to rob thee of them?" ~Said
102 XVII | men, because they should amend. For he abhorreth nothing,
103 XVII | giver of wisdom, and the amender of the unwise, vouchsafe
104 VIII | after-works, no time for amendment, no other way for them that
105 XXXVI | them now up, now down: and amid all its sudden changes,
106 XXVII | children, Dionysus, Zethus, Amphion, Herakles, Apollo, Artemis,
107 XIV | the splendour of rank, or amplitude of power, or arrogance of
108 XXXIII | people from their ancient and ancestral error, and made them servants
109 XXVII | had for leman Ares, once Anchises, once Adonis, whose death
110 XV | shalt remove thy barque to anchor in the future, and, passing
111 XXXIII | many, bringing them to safe anchorage in the haven of God. For
112 XXXIII | true faith and were created anew by his doctrine, and added
113 VII | former blissful glory and angelick name received the name of
114 XXVIII | pacify that God whom I have angered: for, except thou will it,
115 IV | to his chariot. Looking angrily upon them, and breathing
116 XXXIX | old man comfort Ioasaph's anguished soul. Then he sent him unto
117 XIV | for a season, were sore anhungred, he, that had timely deposited
118 VII | for himself a fleshy body, animate with a reasonable and intelligent
119 VII | the Archangels was sent to announce to the Virgin that miraculous
120 XXIX | When his arrival had been announced to the king, and he had
121 XVIII | accomplished my ministry, announcing to thee the knowledge of
122 XXXVIII| indomitable soul bore these annoyances more easily than other men
123 IX | power of death is utterly annulled and destroyed, no longer
124 XI | lovest thou me?', the Apostle answering, `Yea, Lord, thou knowest
125 XXVI | speech and his irrefutable answers, and was convicted by his
126 XXVII | Leda; into a satyr, for Antiope; and into a thunder-bolt,
127 V | spoken, whether he knew of anybody able to help him towards
128 | anyone
129 XXVII | cat and dog, the wolf and ape, the dragon and serpent,
130 XVI | light shining through an aperture. Fixing their eyes thereon,
131 XXXII | defeated, and have no further apology, and have no strength to
132 XIX | Moreover he interpreted the Apostolick exhortations and the sayings
133 XL | met him others, gloriously apparelled with much light, having
134 XXIX | priests, came to him, and appealed to him for help, and made
135 VI | to be deceived by outward appearances, but to give heed to the
136 XVIII | at all worthy of such an appellation, in obedience to my Lord'
137 VIII | have been taught all that appertaineth to the divine Incarnation
138 XXIII | life and the allures of appetite and pleasure, ye constrain
139 XVI | greater gifts. And this applieth but to those external things
140 III | forbade any to approach him, appointing, for instructors and servants,
141 XXVIII | or eleventh hour there is apportioned equal pay, as saith the
142 VI | caskets, that they might appraise the value of these and those.
143 XXII | of all. Make we haste to apprehend that infamous Barlaam. If
144 XIV | after the manner of that aptest of parables that I lately
145 XXXIV | from the bondage of the arch-fiend our foe: thou that wast
146 VIII | Then, at the voice of the archangel, and at the trump of God,
147 V | stayed, and he was like the archer in the tale that would shoot
148 XXV | By untiring enquiry and ardent search I have discovered
149 XXXVIII| his way. And he kept his ardour unquenched from beginning
150 XXIV | Fearing then that, if he argued further with him, his son'
151 XXVI | Ioasaph spake truly and aright. But he was dragged back
152 XXII | man; but pain of heart, arising from an anxious and careful
153 VII | children, he saved alive in an Ark, and set him utterly desolate
154 VI | pearls, and all manner of aromatic sweet perfume. He bound
155 XXXIII | him with the diadem, and arrayed him in all the splendour
156 XI | the fowls of the air and arrayeth with such beauty the lilies
157 IX | that they fall not into arrest? Like as stubble shall be
158 XXIX | came to the king. When his arrival had been announced to the
159 XIX | then, by small increases, arriveth at great endings. ~"Wherefore
160 IX | light. And I will cause the arrogancy of the sinners to cease,
161 XXXIX | war, proposeth high and arrogant thoughts, and suggesteth
162 XIII | third he bore himself right arrogantly, never once granting him
163 XIX | him, teaching him every article of the Catholick Faith and
164 X | being given the power of articulate speech, said to the fowler, `
165 XXVII | is the handiwork of some artificer; and that which is wrought
166 V | the future, and accurately ascertain it? This is beyond human
167 XXV | laborious enquiry hadst ascertained that it was truly a good
168 VII | its own power, nor did he ascribe such a fair ordering to
169 II | spiritual sacrifice. He then, ascribing the cause Of his son's birth
170 IX | dissolution into dust and ashes, a resurrection and re-birth,
171 XXVI | idolaters or Christians, to assemble. Letters were despatched
172 XII | ensamples and such like assemblies men of earth and clay imitate
173 XXIV | all sinful lusts, and to assign worship to deaf and dumb
174 XIII | talents wilt thou undertake to assist me now? What is the hope
175 XX | meriteth to be called an associate of God.' Than which state
176 VII | utterly renounce the good, and assume an evil nature; and he conceived
177 XXXIV | and received fulness of assurance that he should not miscarry
178 XXVI | own conscience secretly assuring him that Ioasaph spake truly
179 V | understanding, while the king was astounded at the charm of his countenance
180 XIII | whom we are passionately attached, and from whom with difficulty
181 XXXI | fashioning statues and attaching to the works of thine own
182 XXXI | sent out by Theudas for to attack the young saint, returned
183 XIX | being natural to us, but attacking us from without, be hard
184 XXXIX | I have learned the wily attacks of the enemy, why expose
185 VIII | communion with God, so far as is attainable to human nature, then shall
186 XXII | me, being as I am, not to attend as a slave before thy might,
187 II | great and ceaseless the attendant care. Of its gladness and
188 XXV | alluring him by flattering attentions. The day following, the
189 XXIX | Hereupon Theudas, bowing an attentive ear to the evil one, and
190 XXXVIII| dainties, but with little to attract the palate of sense. These
191 XXII | case that should by its attractions cause us to cling to life,
192 XII | disparage and blame himself, attributing his failure to slothfulness
193 XXVI | hath so shamelessly and audaciously blasphemed our gods, and
194 XXV | signified to him his son's sheer audacity and unchangeable resolution.
195 XXXVI | according to custom, in the audience of all he said, "Lo, as
196 XXVI | kingdom, beside certain augurs, sorcerers and seers, that
197 IV | thine old course evil." The authors of this villainous charge
198 VIII | no lavishment of bribes, avail to pervert righteous judgement.
199 XXXVI | his kith and kindred, has availed to help him, or to save
200 XXVI | to-day, speedily will I avenge me of mine injury; with
201 XXVIII | pathway which thou hast avoided, not in ignorance, but by
202 XXII | the grace of Christ, he avoideth us; but amongst you he hath
203 XXXIV | bind the strong man, and award everlasting freedom to them
204 XXVII | and chiselled by workmen's axes, growing old and dissolving
205 XI | distribution of his rewards. Ay, and in this world he exhorteth
206 XXI | sort of discourses this babbler maketh me, endeavouring
207 XXXVII | enemies be ashamed and turned backward: let them be driven and
208 XXIX | Theudas, "Behold now, as thou badest us, we have spared no pains
209 XII | his neck with brilliant badges of dignity; to-morrow it
210 V | health is turned away by the badness of the humours." Again the
211 VIII | deprived of that glory which baffleth description, the being made
212 XXV | the fishhook of the devil, baited with beastly pleasure, whereby
213 XXVIII | pleasures of youth, the baits that take foolish souls,
214 XXVII | useless by mankind. If it be baked by the sun, it becometh
215 XXVI | who, of old in the time of Balak, when purposing to curse
216 I | Egypt, and numbers of monks banded themselves together, and
217 XXXIX | authority to trample on the baneful head of the enemy of our
218 XXX | means of Eve, thus miserably banishing him, alas! from Paradise
219 I | with the gloom of idolatry, barbarous to the last degree, and
220 XV | to all, shalt remove thy barque to anchor in the future,
221 V | imprisonment here? Wily hast thou barred me within walls and doors,
222 XXXI | yonder sun, into how many a barren and filthy place he darteth
223 XXVIII | heaven to all that turn, barring the way of salvation to
224 XIV | have deserved it, who have bartered the incorruptible and eternal
225 XXXI | thou liest baser than the base stone, worshipping not God
226 XXXI | upon the earth, thou liest baser than the base stone, worshipping
227 XIV | impulse, on no sure or firm bases: they know not to what goal
228 XXI | maketh me, endeavouring to be-jape me with his specious follies,
229 VI | girdles. But those, that were be-smeared with pitch and tar, were
230 XXII | king's son astray?" The bearer of the wallet answered, "
231 XVI | that know the unspeakable beauties of the tabernacles in heaven
232 XIX | countenance of the Lord: and thou becomest a son of God, and temple
233 XXV | the son entered his own bedchamber, and lifted up his eyes
234 XXIV | smallest answer to their bedesmen? When have they walked,
235 XIX | just as smoke driveth away bees, so, we learn, do evil imaginations
236 XXXIII | gave him everything that befitted a king. Thus then did Ioasaph
237 IV | found, I will heal it with befitting medicines, that so the evil
238 XXX | seeds of evil thoughts, and befoul the cleanness of his mind.
239 XXXV | spiritual father to him that begat him in the flesh: for he
240 XXXV | strange way appearing as the begetter of his own father, and proving
241 IV | within his heart. ~The sick beggar-man considered and said, "Be
242 XXXIII | orphans, and widows, and beggars, a loving and good father,
243 II | royal dwelling. But man, beguiled by envy, and (wo is me!)
244 V | which is good, the eye that beholdeth all things looked upon him,
245 XVII | Godhead.' ~"Even as a man, beholding an house splendidly and
246 XVI | remembrance thereof: for it behoveth us not to turn our mind
247 XII | imitate the life of heavenly beings, in fastings and prayers
248 XXIV | slandering of our religion, and belauding and praising of his idolatry,
249 XXXV | was driven far from the believers, and all were sane and sound
250 XIX | spotless Mysteries of Christ, believing in truth that they are the
251 XXX | The evil one plied the bellows from within, while the damsels,
252 XI | his shameful plight, and, bemoaning himself, said, `How many
253 XVIII | will damage rather than benefit its friends. Meetly therefore
254 X | which thou shalt be greatly benefited all thy life long.' He,
255 XXXII | worthy memorial have they bequeathed to the world? Tell me. And
256 XXXVI | like orphans over their bereavement, but could in no wise over-persuade
257 X | in utter loneliness, and bereft of all company of kith and
258 XXXVII | sooth, so that his path was beset by fear and toil. But he
259 XXVIII | severely with whips of oxhide, besmearing their eyes with soot, and
260 XXXVII | things, and thus display thy bestial and crooked nature, and
261 XXXIII | father, for he deemed that by bestowing blessings on these he won
262 XXXII | burnt them with fire. And he betook himself to the cave of that
263 XVI | wealthy family hath been betrothed unto me in marriage, and
264 XI | in that continual warfare betwixt the twain; also to endure
265 XXXVI | upon their breasts, and bewailed the misfortune that had
266 XXXVI | weeping like orphans and bewailing their loss. Lamenting bitterly,
267 VIII | incorruptible. And concerning this, beware lest the reasoning of unbelief
268 XXXIII | thus, he was completely bewildered, and plainly showed his
269 XV | languid and cold: some have a bias entirely toward virtue,
270 XXXVI | back, and the command that biddeth us to honour our fathers.
271 II | the law of my mind,' and binding me, as with iron chains,
272 XXXV | Faith. Then came the holy Bishop, of whom we have spoken,
273 XXVI | and held him in as with bit and bridle, and suffered
274 XXXI | prophet cried, Hell is in bitterness at having met thee below:
275 XXXI | ear, thou abyss of error, blacker than the darkness that may
276 IX | and desolation, a day of blackness and gloominess, a day of
277 XXVI | shamelessly and audaciously blasphemed our gods, and hath enmeshed
278 XXIV | weft to be such an one, a blasphemer of the gods, and a renegade
279 XXXI | God, the Word, that thou blasphemest without a blush? Go to!
280 XXIV | against him often times by blaspheming him, and often times by
281 VI | who, when he heard its blast, despaired of his life,
282 XXX | tribulation and trouble. There blazed a glowing furnace of fire,
283 XXII | full tale. Then will we blazon it abroad that Barlaam hath
284 II | and fury, and, in speech blended of these two passions, he
285 XXV | merciful God, whom all creation blesseth, glorified for ever and
286 XXVIII | ancient supplanter hath blinded the eyes of my heart, and
287 XX | Cross, that no stumbling block of the evil one come nigh
288 XXXV | and of his own cruelty and blood-thirstiness toward the Christians, he
289 II | reeking with the smell of bloody sacrifices, a certain mall
290 IX | shall be as foam, and their blossom shall go up as dust, for
291 II | ever until it took root, blossomed, and bare that fruit which
292 XXVI | your memorial may be clean blotted out from off the earth.
293 XII | shadow, or the breeze that bloweth the air. Small and short-lived
294 XXXVI | ships. If one of the sailors blunder it bringeth but small damage
295 XXXI | thou blasphemest without a blush? Go to! Better were it to
296 XXVII | hounds, in chase of stag or boar. How can such an one, that
297 XXVII | hunter-god, violently killed by a boar-tusk, and unable to help his
298 IV | but another of your idle boasts and lies." The monks answered, "
299 VII | multitudes, immaterial and bodiless, ministering spirits of
300 IV | forth a-hunting with his bodyguard, as was his wont, this good
301 XXIII | and he, when he saw them, boiled over with fury and was like
302 XXVII | covetous, the warrior, the bondman and adulterer be a god? ~"
303 XXX | thou joined with me in the bonds of wedlock, and I will joyfully
304 VI | master of so wondrous a boon." The other answered, "If
305 II | and retired across the border into the desert. There,
306 XI | and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
307 XXVIII | contrite heart, and went bounding into the depths of the desert,
308 XXVII | transgress their proper bounds, according to the inexorable
309 XV | rising to shine on all, doth bounteously send forth his beams, inviting
310 XII | are its charms, such its bounties. For it is an enemy of its
311 XXIX | come." ~Hereupon Theudas, bowing an attentive ear to the
312 XXVII | a covetous, a sorcerer, bowlegged, and an interpreter of speech.
313 XV | come from deep wells are brackish or sulphurous, even as some
314 XXXI | tongue, sans throat, sans brains, sans inwards, so that it
315 XXXV | down to the ground. Then he brake them into small pieces,
316 XV | out their eyes on many a bramble bush, the sun, firmly established
317 XIV | rocks and all manner of bramble-thorns, and, nowhere finding any
318 XXXV | divine fruit of that divine Branch, which saith, "I am the
319 XXIII | of their fathers: whose bravery and lofty spirit, however,
320 XII | rigours of the open air, and braving the blaze of the scorching
321 XXXI | potsherd god shattered; thy brazen god rusteth; thy gold or
322 XXVI | durst thou be so mighty brazen-faced? What is the manner of thy
323 XXVIII | tyrannical misuse of power, and a breaking of the covenants." The king,
324 XXX | tears, he smote upon his breast, driving out evil thoughts,
325 XVIII | truth, and having on the breast-plate of righteousness, and wearing
326 II | thee the power to live and breathe, Christ Jesus, the Lord
327 XXII | his men ran upon them in breathless haste, vying one with another,
328 XXIV | sooner trust the unstable breezes, or the tracks of a ship
329 VIII | of rank, no lavishment of bribes, avail to pervert righteous
330 II | and from the making of bricks, and from the harsh and
331 XXX | royal stables, with golden bridles and purple caparisons, mounted
332 XV | lovers, and warmeth and brighteneth them. But if any shut their
333 XXXIV | thou didst enkindle more brightly for us. Much evil did we
334 XII | it adorneth his neck with brilliant badges of dignity; to-morrow
335 XXXII | many that are mighty and brilliantly wise? What is the proof
336 XXXIX | but, like water from the brimming fountain, bedewed him and
337 XXIII | their welfare, but in truth bringest on them and above all on
338 VIII | Saving Name, the Holy Spirit brooding on the water. We are baptized,
339 XXII | That man of sin could not brook this boldness of speech,
340 XX | hart desireth the water brooks, so longeth my soul after
341 XVIII | found an herd of gazelles browsing; and, joining them, she
342 XV | as some of these waters bubble forth continuously, and
343 XIX | though with respect to the buffeting of the body, it hath been
344 VI | king knew that it was by buffetings of the body and by the sweats
345 XXXVII | be the contrivances and bug-bears of thy malice, I have now
346 XVII | framed, taketh note of the builder or workman and marvelleth
347 X | body doth not attain to the bulk of ostrich eggs. How then
348 XXVII | show him transformed into a bull, for Europa; into gold,
349 XXXI | God. Next ye take the best bullock out of your folds, or (may
350 XVIII | tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be
351 XII | shame, and bound under heavy burdens, to eternal tribulation.
352 XIII | nothing but the useless burial cloths. By the second friend
353 XI | the first.' For baptism burieth in the water and completely
354 I | senators laid aside all the burthens of life, and thenceforth
355 IV | dreadeth menace of death busieth not himself with the purveyante
356 XIII | turn quickly homeward, and busy myself with mine own anxieties.'
357 IX | going out, went forth to buy oil. Afterward they drew
358 XXXI | giveth them value. But who buyeth God? Who offereth God for
359 XII | and quite forgetting that buyings and sellings are concerns
360 XXXIV | from thy face, and made a by-word on earth, as were the sinful
361 XXVII | fled with Horus her son to Byblos in Syria, seeking Osiris
362 XXXVII | he halted at a poor man's cabin, and stripped himself of
363 II | glorious light of a perfect calm. ~But when the king, who
364 XXXIX | man cheeked him gently and calmly, saying, "Son, we ought
365 XV | For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of
366 XVIII | hide stretched over thin canes. And he wore an hair shirt,
367 XXXIII | man, and learned in the canons of the Church, whose heart
368 XXX | golden bridles and purple caparisons, mounted by armed soldiers;
369 XXII | the passes with troops and captains, and, himself, mounting
370 XXXIII | prisons, and sought out the captives in mines, or debtors in
371 XXVII | and slaughters and cruel captivities. But if now we choose to
372 XXIV | abroad that Barlaam was captured, so that the king's son
373 XXVI | with the residue of thy carcase to be meat for the dogs,
374 IX | forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed
375 XXXI | of silver or gold, he is carefully guarded; but if of stone
376 XXIII | goods of others? Nay, thou carest not for the weal of the
377 XXVII | sake of mankind, for the carriage of ships, and the conveyance
378 IX | sins as with an heifer's cart-rope! Wo unto them that call
379 XXXI | of men's hands? Ye have carved stone and graven wood and
380 XXVII | Apollo, Artemis, Perseus, Castor, Helen, Polydeukes, Minos,
381 XXVII | crocodile, and some the cat and dog, the wolf and ape,
382 XIX | thought and reflection, catcheth at small beginnings, and
383 VII | nations, and preached the true Catholic Faith, baptizing them in
384 XXX | recompense be due to the causer of that conversion? Yea,
385 XII | shelter. This they did for two causes: firstly, that never seeing
386 XXIV | completely overthrowing it, and causing the memorial thereof to
387 XXIX | arose, and withdrew to a cavern situate in the depth of
388 XVI | descried an underground cavernous chamber, in the forefront
389 XII | mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth, self-banished
390 XXXII | power, and exalted like the cedars of Libanus: and I went by
391 XXIX | for sacrifice. And they celebrated their accursed feast till
392 XXII | Barlaam, thou shouldest certainly have said, `Where is he
393 IX | Barlaam, "From the past I gain certainty about the future; for they
394 VII | idolatry. Though the enemy chafeth under his defeat, and even
395 XX | exercises. I felt that she was chafing and fretting, and yearning
396 XXXI | building of the tower of Chalane, whereby the world was confounded,
397 III | in the star-lore of the Chaldaeans. These the king called into
398 XXXI | unquenchable fire, true copy of the Chaldean race, have ye no shame to
399 II | the unstable changes and chances thereof, and refusing to
400 XXVII | gods, but corruptible and changeable things, brought out of non-existence
401 XL | Thereupon, sooth to say, they chanted the sacred hymns over them,
402 VI | more honourable than any chaplet or royal purple.' Thus he
403 XI | kingdom of heaven. Again he chargeth us to mourn in the present
404 XXX | ornamental vestments, splendid chariots with horses from the royal
405 XX | thee, and with alms and charities to the poor lend wings to
406 XXXII | jaw of the wily serpent, charmed away his sorrow with words
407 XXXII | not hear the voice of the charmers. Well, therefore, spake
408 II | there ever been seen so charming and lovely a babe. Full
409 XXXIII | temples were rigorously chased away and put to flight;
410 XX | into the way of salvation, chasing afar out of thy mind every
411 VIII | that the good, who was here chastised for his misdeeds, may there
412 XXIV | honouring their worshippers and chastising the runagates." ~Now when
413 XXXVIII| were the sorrows and toils Chat he endured, comfort came
414 XXI | not grasp at the world's chattels which they have chosen to
415 XXII | not miss the mark, nor be cheated of our hope. Barlaam himself
416 XX | trial of her, and put a check upon her, not allowing her
417 XI | smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
418 XXXIX | thus in tears, the old man cheeked him gently and calmly, saying, "
419 XXIV | prince, and strengthened and cheered him for the trial of his
420 V | he made as though he were cheerful and without trouble, unwilling
421 XXI | and begged him to send him cheerfully on his way; and at the same
422 XXXVIII| much of that coarse and cheerless food as would keep him alive;
423 VI | Whereupon he ordered the golden chests to be opened. And when they
424 XVI | than ours?' `All,' said the chief-counsellor `who prefer the eternal
425 XXXIII | and therein appointed for chief-priest one of the bishops that
426 I | ungodly decrees. But of the chiefs and rulers of the monastic
427 XXIV | With untutored mind and childish judgement thou hast followed
428 XXVII | their gods being sawn and chiselled by workmen's axes, growing
429 XXXVI | them with sharp words, and chode with them harshly; and so
430 XXIX | David bear his part in our chorus), and when, as saith Esay,
431 IV | the gods, and incline to Christianity, but more, that he was grievously
432 XXII | of desert, and made the circuit of the fells around, and
433 XXX | Is not Paul said to have circumcised Timothy on account of a
434 XXX | greater dispensation? And yet circumcision hath been reckoned by Christians
435 XIX | as walk, not as fools but circumspectly, understanding what the
436 XXX | and she began to shake the citadel of his soul, and to slacken
437 XXXI | of the heavenly king, and citizen of that city which the Lord
438 XXIII | every weapon to defend thy claim; for to us to live is Christ,
439 XIX | natural kinship therewith and claimeth God for an help-mate, becometh
440 XXXVI | thereof, anon there arose a clamour, an uproar, and a mighty
441 VI | secured them with golden clasps. The other two he smeared
442 XXIII | out their eyes with iron claws, and stretched their arms
443 XXX | thoughts, and befoul the cleanness of his mind. So, when the
444 XX | soul from all passion, and cleanse it like a bright and newly
445 IX | proclaimed with wondrous clearness by the prophets of old time,
446 XL | fall." And again, "My soul cleaveth to thee; thy right hand
447 XIV | and then anon against the clefts of the rocks and all manner
448 XI | no sin too great for the clemency of God, if we be quick to
449 XXXVI | Therewith he prayed for the clergy and all the flock, asking
450 IX | saith one of the inspired clerks of God; `nevertheless we,
451 XXIII | do well to punish you, ye clever misleaders of the folk,
452 XXV | wanderest over terrible cliffs and chasms. Holding darkness
453 XI | support one another and are clinched together, conduct the soul
454 XXXVII | like a heavy burden and clog, the stress of transitory
455 XI | thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall
456 XXXIV | to his prayer, opened the closed gates of his father's heart (
457 XXXIV | Forthwith he entered his closet, and falling on his face
458 XXXIV | afterward, they two were closeted together. ~But how tell
459 XIX | sins grow on them, the more cloth the soul become accustomed
460 XVIII | gladness, how shall I again clothe these in their coats of
461 XVI | asked for the old man's clothes and put them on. When the
462 XIII | nothing but the useless burial cloths. By the second friend is
463 IX | and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day
464 XXX | a gracious perfume that cloyed not the sense. Thrones were
465 XII | how the tree, which he had clutched, was all but severed; and
466 VIII | punished, their vengeance being co-eternal with them. ~"Seeing that
467 XIV | that cometh from them were co-existent with us, and immortal as
468 IX | stubble shall be burnt by live coal of fire, and consumed by
469 XXIX | all the more fiercely the coals of sensual desire. After
470 XVIII | again clothe these in their coats of hide, and gird them about
471 XXV | kissed him affectionately, coaxing him gently and tenderly,
472 XXXVII | purple, as of less worth than cobwebs, and to surrender himself
473 XXXVI | ministry, and emptied all his coffers, in order that the burden
474 V | dazed and shuddering at its cogitations, and unable to throw off
475 XII | to-morrow it humbleth him with a collar of iron. For a little while
476 XXX | manner of plants of divers colours, charged with strange and
477 XVIII | do I dwell. For my fellow combatants I have those who labour
478 XVII | and have ever been were combined in one. For, as saith the
479 XXXVIII| altogether forgetful of comforts or repose, and tyrannized
480 XXVIII | the beginning, Sir, thou commandedst that the trial should be
481 II | of my kingdom, and chief commander of my realm made himself
482 XXXI | a lover of mankind, who commandeth righteousness, enjoineth
483 XXIV | delivered him to Araches, commanding that he should be most strictly
484 XXXI | thou victim of folly, that commendest such things as these. Estranged
485 XXXI | from contact with things commoner than themselves, with what
486 II | alienated thyself from the commonwealth of heavenly felicity but
487 XXI | the curtain, and hear his communication with me: and then thus will
488 I | band of Christians and the companies of monks, paying no regard
489 XXI | his friends, exceed beyond comparison all that is seen; which
490 XVII | wisdom, but to the full compass of my powers; yea I have
491 XXXIV | And, by thine infinite compassions, I pray thee, Lord Jesu
492 XXVIII | the covenants." The king, compelled to yield by the gracefulness
493 I | passed a decree forthwith, compelling all Christians to renounce
494 VIII | from all original sins, and complete purification of all defilements
495 XIV | without hindrance, until the completion of a year. Then suddenly,
496 XXXII | the holy Gospel, though composed but by common fishermen,
497 XXVII | a maker of medicines, a compounder of plasters for his livelihood (
498 XVII | of earth shall skill to comprehend it, save he to whom he himself
499 VIII | singular, if they had been comprehended by reason and expressed
500 XXXII | that with glosing words concealeth the mire of their unsavoury
501 IV | They that dread death have concern how to escape it. And who
502 XXII | while he himself, being concerned for Zardan's health, sent
503 XI | that Jesus spake to us, concerneth such as turn again from
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